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" 1 v.*m*--t ix ' :] -^ per aii " uml ." a ; lv 7 j^rtisementsinaertej at jfl p*r square for theto .,". 25 cents for each sabseqaent insertion court or ir ged 25 percent higher an act to improve the navigation of the yadkin river re it enacted by lhe general assembly f the state of north carolina and it is jljbv enacted by the authority of the ' me that it shall and may be lawful open books of subscription at lexing ton under the direction of j 1 mabry jilliam harris and joseph if thomp on or any two of them ; at salisbury the direction of john j shaver ..:, s mccay.and joseph f cham l-rs or any two of ihem : at moeksville er the direction of braxton bailey mcelroy.and alexander lanes or 1 two of them at i luntsville under e direction of richard c puryear nich a |_ williams and francis clingman ny two of them ; at rockford under .. direction of francis k armstrong mark york and james r dodge or any wo-oftbem at wilkesborougli under ,. c direction of sidney stokes anderson ;, nnd james gwynn or any two i for receiving subscriptions for jmnroring lue navigation of the yadkin giver to an amount not less than thirty | sand dollars nor more than three hundred thousand which subscriptions , made personally or by power of attorney in shares of fifty dollars each that tli s:i - '' '' ; "''^ snh " de opened on ibe first day ot february next and be kept open till the first day of may next e ; and on the second monday of e said month of may there shall be a lieneral meeting of the subscribers at lexington aforesaid and the managers lid or any three of them shall give notice ofsnch meeting in one or more pu blished on the town of salisbury iih at least before the day ap for that purpose and such meet an person or persons on oenaii ot the company to open and improve the nav igation of yadkin river from the town of wilkesborougli to the south carolina line by canals locks or sluices from place to place and from time to time up on such terms as they shall think fit and out ofthe said capital or other monies of the company pay for making and repair ing all works necessary for the said navi gation and also for building boats and employing hands for the purpose of nav igating said river and also to appoint a treasurer clerk and all such other offi cers managers and servants as they shall think requisite and also to agree for their wages settle and pay their accounts and at their pleasure to remove all or any of them and appoint others in their place and also to establish rules of proceding and generally to transact all the business of the company in the intervals between the general meetings of the same and any general meeting of the proprietors may aliow the said president and direc tors such.sum of money as the said gen eral meeting may think a reasonable com pensation for their trouble 5 and be il further enacted that the stock shall be paid in such proportions and at such times as may be determined by any general meeting of the stockhold ers and to such officer of the company as may be appointed to receive the same one month's previous notice ofthe amount state of north carou.va office of secretary of slate i william hill secretary of state in and for the state of north carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an act of the general assembly of 1s4g â€” 7 drawn off from the original which is on file in this office given nuclei my hand this 14th day of january 1817 wm hill secretary of state commodore perry's plax the n y evening post publishes a letter from its washington correspondent giving a plan for the future prosecution of the war recommended hy commodore per ry which is said to have been spoken of with very general approbation in wash ington we give the following extract from the orresdondenis letter : a few words will suffice to make it plain abandon all the expensive san guinary and doubtful projects of further invasion so far as regards the interior of mexico let us content ourselves with the occupation of the provinces already conquered or so much of them as we may intend to keep as an indemnification for the war on the other hand let us take immediate possession of ail her ports both on the gull and on the pacific and occu another english view of a merica from the liverpool journal dec 5 the war in america grows suspicion santa anna was publicly ushered into mexico by the united states ; and yet this dictator by their permission has done nothing to terminate hostilities which nei ther party seems disposed to prosecute with becoming energy general taylor lan guishes in the field with an insufficient force and santa anna without either an army or money talks big but does noth ing it is not unreasonable to suspect a joggle here ; but we can better excuse it since it or something else has reduced the horrors of war to a minimum as we said last week the united states must compel the mexicans to adopt the means of securing peace this must be the end ofthe war sooner or later in the meantime a political change has come over the union the moneyed in terest has again asserted its influence and democracy which always implies lhe re verse of wealth has sustained a de-feat in the recent elections mr webster is spo ken of as the next president and mr polk will have to sustain the mortification of governing through an adverse parliament we are not disposed to apprehend any thing worse from all this than a transfer ence of power from one party to another the tariff is not likely to be disturbed t went minth congr ess debate in the senate ijkute x a s t g : : n 1 k a i . 7'lie bill to authorize the appointment of a lieutenant general to command the military forces ot the united slates during the war with mexico was taken up f or consideration as in committee of the whole mr badger then rose am said that the best return he believed he could make to lhe senate lor its kindness in adjourning yesterday in order to give him an opportunity to say what he had to say to-day would he to proceed at ce.ee to the statement of those reasons which seemed to him to present an insuperable ob tion to the granting of that which the president of the united states asked of them and which the bill upon lhe table proposed to grant the proposal said mr u is to appoinl a commanding general who when commissioned as lieutenant general shall command all the armies of the united states if this bill mr president shall pass into a law the proposed high office lo be created by it must be filled either by the presenl general commanding the army or bv some junior officer of the army or by some citizen to be taken from the walks of private like in the first case sir i think it musl he manifest on a very little reflection that the measure must prove entirely useless the major general now commanding the army com mands all the force about him ; his command extends over the whole district or department 4 can ervc as a nn â€¢.,',. t . ii . â– , ' " 1 5 ini'ie i n,,t an n s , h v j " v . 8,,tha,,ii < < true mr , hat in 1793 when lhe ,â€ž mi . v pns . se.s,ngfor inferior powers and inferior psci ties for military defence was threatened with an inevitable war with the prou *,,â€ž st and most powerful nation r.f tl ,| ii t y it i true that on that occasion the office of lieaten ant general was established and washington was called under that designation tj fal e command of all the armies ofthe country but str.it was washington who o lhat command it wasfurvvash lllna t â„¢ ? aa 1 washington was the n re meiit l which he loved enjoying the ease and solace of domestic life which he had earned for himself bv 1 riu â€ž s ,,â€ž-,. washington was called to that command b people by the army itself called to lake |] e charge and direi ti n of those great military of beers and it he returned ui active life if he left the spot in which he h to pas without interruption the few remaining j a i sof hu it was due to him it was c i e *'' â– ;*'â€¢' iÂ«ion of eminence ami glory win 1 he had occupied m this couniry yes sir it was due tp him who as he had been first in war was to h.s character lis pre-eminence tin out the whole breadth Â« i this land ir was to the proud positi m which ho occuj ied in the civilized world ; yes it was due to him when at the call of his country le surrendered easa and comfort to appear once nine upon th of arm that h ; should do it wilh a ti ponding in - ee with his va perior merits sir the state of things is now changed we have no washington we carin.it it w throughout lhe whole country find in retire ment a man on whose head a nation's bless mgs have with entire unanimity been shower ed as on him we cannot look abroad and find some one man whose name is gratefully cher ished as having heen once the saviour of his country and to whom all lo.-k again lo dis cbarge this benevolent office of patriotism a second time for ihem we have eminent and good men we have them in public and in pri vate life .- we have them in the military and in the civil service of the country ; we have them belonging to all parties into which the people ..,. i m...i . 1 .: 1 ... . ii ., ' â€¢ , shall be continued from day to day ... business is finished and the man resaid shall then and there lay meeting the books kept by containing a statement of said sub ins and if the stun of three hundred bousand dollars aforesaid shall not have i subscribed then the meeting afore r i majority thereof if they think nay direct any three of the man pn aforesaid to continue to receive â€¢ pt ions of slock at such times and s as may be designated by said naeet iz,cn:il lhe said sum of three hundred mand dollars shall have been subscrib soch other sum over and above iheusand dollars as said meeting ecify : provided the same does : mceed three hundred thousand dol i\;uk1 the president and directors to t cons'ituted as hereinafter provided immediately after the said first meet : i afterwards from time to time as iotas the same shall by new subscrip s become necessary make a list of â€¢ bscribers with the sums subscribed . person and return the sttme un their hands or under the hands of any ol them to the office of the secreta ihe state of north carolina there o be received i ami be it farther enacted that in sesix hundred shares or more of said ipital stock shall be subscribed as a fore id the subscribers their heirs and as and time ot making the payments being given in some one newspaper published in the town of salisbury and if any of the subscribers their heirs or assigns shall fail to pay their proportions requir ed within one month after the same is so advertised the president and directors or a majority of them may sell at auction ! and convey to the purchaser the shares of ! the subscribers so failing giving at least i one month's notice of the sale in some newspaper in the town aforesaid and after retaining the sum due together with the interest thereon and charges of sale out of the money produced thereby they shall refund and pay the surplus if any to the former owners and if such sale shall not produce the full sum ordered and directed to be advanced as aforesaid with interest and incidental charges the said president and directors or a majority of them may in the name of the company sue for and recover the balance by mo tion in any court of competent jnrisdic â– tion on ten days previous notice ; and the said purchaser or purchasers shall be sub ject to the same rules and regulations and entitled to the same profits and privileges as if the sale or conveyance had been made by the original proprietor (!. antl be it further enacted that said canals locks and every work and thing appertaining to the said navigation with all the profits arising from the same or any part thereof shall be and they are py them as conquered territory till she shall come to just and honorable terms of peace open them all to a free commerce first placing in them collectors of our own and establishing a suitable tariff a spe cific duties by means of which we shall levy from the mexican nation itself a revenue fully adequate to cover all the expenses naval and military of such oc cupation in regard to yucatan which is constantly blowing hot and cold between mexico and ourselves compel that prov ince at once lo its election between the two if it shall abide by the fate of the former include its ports likewise in this system and in either ease extend a cor don of military accupations across the isth mus which conncts it with mexico so as to cut off the mexicans from the supplies chiefly ofthe indispensable article of salt which they now derive from the cunning and double yucatecos when we have our enemy thus shut in on all sides let us hold him so like a f'roward child shut up n a closet or held firmly and patiently by the arms till he comes to his senses legs pardon and promises to be good the beauty of this plan is that mexico herself will have to pay its whole expense while at the same lime our own people and commerce will be greatly benefited hy it it will be idle for her to prohibit the further diffusion throughout the coun try of the goods thus introduced into her ports they will circulate as certainly for the american whigs like the english tories may improve upon the policy of their opponents and astonish alike friends and enemies by the extent ot their love for free trade this is the more likely from their seeing now the advantage of sir robert peel's measures to them and us the most distant parts ofthe union reveal unexpected stocks of bread stuffs and the farmers pour down on the ports unheard of quantities for export to great britian and ireland freedom of trade is here doubly blessed and the glad popula tion of europe will rejoice that the new world teems with plenty to feed the old the late harvest in america compensates for every deficiency here and creates an active trade in shipping and no doubt in manufactures for the demand being un expected may be regarded as a kind of sudden enrichment the farmers on the mississippi will be enabled to indulge the taste of their wives sons and daughters in the gratifying productions of british in dustry while the corn crop howerer is large the cotton crop is less promising a pos itive deficiency is expected and that de ficincy will be the greater in consequence ofthe increased consumption in our mills as yet however there is a want of cer tainty and as cheap cotton is a blessing we find relief in the remaining hope that the crop may turn out better than is ex pected uio rresiaent oj the tinted slates has assigned or may assign to him and a lieuten ft general though his title may be loftier can do no more the president of the i . states may assign to lhe present commanding major general of the army the whole eniire and ab solute control under him of all the military op rations of the war and he may assign though he is not bound to assign to a lieutenant gene ral to this officer with the title of lieutenant general the same large and extensive authori ty the president of the united states may confine lhe present senior major general of lhe army to a particular district to a tianow com mand or to a small body of troops ; so can he confine the same officer elevated to the grade of lieutenant general : for by the express pro vision of lhe constitution by lhe inevitable ne cessity of the case by whatever title he mas be called major general or lieutenant general ho is at last under the absolute control or direc lion of ihe president himself who is the sole constitutional commander-in-chief i5v chang ing therefore the designation of major general to lieutenant general you not enlarge bis authority for the chief command of theÂ°whole army is incident to no general whatever his grade may be unless when that army is collec ted together and acting as one body ; and when so collected and acting together the chief com mand is incident to ihe senior officer whether called lieutenant or major general noi is lhc capacity of the officer to discharge with effect to carry into successful results the duties as signed to him in the smallest degree increased by a change of title or an elevation to a iiÂ»hcr grade the authority must come from the pre sideut of the l'nited stales the capacity to in uiviueu ; inn sir among in.-m all there is not one whose name can without profanation be spoken in ci mparison with the nan washington sir ihe creation of that office in 1798 \\,.~ a personal tribute of grateful admira tion and respect on the part of this country to washington it was founded on motives per sonal to him no man supposed at that day as some seem to supp se al this that washing ton at the head of the armi - i his country with the title of major general could not have been as efficienf ;.- if he bore a hundred titles â€” as il l,e wore all ihe lilies which european device could heap upon him ti idea lhat washington could derive any advantage any mental power of concentration any genius any greater skill in the management of lhe affairs ol his country : or thai it would add anything jo the indomitable sp:ril l.v wine he was ena bled in success or i adversity to 1 always tlie sam : hut he could derive in any degree all 01 any of these attributes from the circum slance ot bearing a higher title entered not i am persuaded into t imagination of any ho man being it was known that washington with lhe title of major general could have dis charge all h dutii s lhal were placed in his hands ay with an inferior title ; i ccausc lhe power io discharge i 1 em depended on his per sonal qualities tied lhe force placed at hi i com mand the lit in that case was just : il was deserved by him bit no oilier man am i wrong in saying that this appointmenl sprun from motives personal lo washington ' h look at lhe subsequent transactions of this go eminent nearly half a century has passed a way since ties office <â– ! lieutenant general ex isted among us we have during that period i â€ž i â€¢ . i .. . pis from the time of the first said meet f shall he and they are hereby declar ito be incorporated into a company by ler the name of the yadkin na company and may sue and be such and have and use a com il and such of the subscribers as j present at the said meeting or a of them are hereby empowered required to elect a president and four -. for managing all the business company for and during such t not exceeding one year as the said bribers or a majority of them shall â€¢ and in counting lhe votes of all l*eral meetings of the said company ember shall be allowed one vote very share of stock held by him or , â– 'â€¢"â€¢ at the time in said company and any j fÂ°prietor by writing under his or her ! â– 4 m executed in the presence of at least bscribing witness and acknow i proved before a justice of the ace may depute any person to act as nyior him or her at any general meet s'&nd the presence and acts of such ny shall be as effectual to all intents purposes as the presence or acts of her principal could or might be , Â°. /; it further enacted that thestock t of said company shall boldagen annually,on the second mon j mn may of each year at which gen * meeting they shall elect a president 3(1 four directors to supply the place of who may have held said positions in preceding year and it shall be in the â– *Â«? of the president and directors or ftajontyof them in case of the death l remg,m n 0n Â° f 0,u ot ' l eir own niem ft to call a general meeting of stock grs to supply the vacancy and to call jwalmeetingsol stockholders at such r umes as they may think the busi Â£? tbocoinpanyreiiuires.uiulusuch esas they or a majority of them may jj*fit and in all such general meet he holders of a majority of the stock 4 uorm a quorum to do business e .\- % p l at the annual meeting aforesaid i*mhe holders of one hundred shares ock shall form a quorum to elect a irnl an<1 direct rs but for no other j v se ' d should not the holders of one fed shares of stock be present at such w * president id directors or a j 'â– } ot them shall adjourn said meet Â£ ll ro n day to day until such number /Â£ present *:â–ºâ€ž/;â– ' l f u '' l r enacted that the pre <** m p rec tors and their successors k n 0 i 0nly j < hem assembled shall pÂ°*er and authority to agree with nereoy vested in the said proprietors their heirs and assigns forever as tenants in common in proportion to their respective shares and they shall in like manner for the space of thirty 30 years be entitled to executive right of way over said river to construct boats build ware houses and carry on the business of transporta tion both up and down said river to the exclusion of all others for the time above specified they not being permitted how ever to charge on any articles thus trans ported more than forty cents per hundred pounds for every hundred miles by water or at the rate thereof if the distance be less than one hundred miles 7 and be it further enacted that said company shall have no power to condemn or to appropriate contrary to the will of the proprietors thereof any land lying without the channel of said river but shall be permitted to purchase and to hold such quantities as may he necessary to use in cutting canals and building ware houses upon and keeping up the same 8 and be it further enacted that it shall and may be lawful for ovary propri etor to transfer his or her share or shares of stock by deed executed before one or more witnesses and registered after proof of the execution in the company's books and not otherwise except by devise : pro vided that no transfer shall be made ex cept lor one or more whole shares 9 and he it further enacted that in case the said company shall not complete the navigation so as to admit the safe passage of boats drawing eighteen inches water through the same within live years from tint passage of this act ihen the pri vileges herein granted shall be forfeited provided that said company may not if they choose render the said river nav igable at any time higher up the same than rockford in surry county or lower down than the trading ford in rowan county and still al the privileges and immunities herein granted shall continue to them on that part of the river between the two points aforesaid 10 and be it further enacted that all laws and clauses of laws coming in con flict with this act be and the same are hereby repealed ratified in general assembly on this ) 11 ia day of january is 47 \ rob b gilliam speaker of the ii of commons a joyxer speaker of the senate and almost as freely as though they had passed regularly through mexican instead of ameican custom-houses the number of ports on the gulf which ought to be thus occupied is about eleven namely-matamoras sotola marina tam pico tuxpan vera cruz alvarado gua sacoalcos tabasco laguna campeachy and sisal ; of these matamoras tampico tabasco or frontera and laguna are already ours the rest can easily be ta ken ; and with the support of the navy as easily kept about five thousand men will serve to tal^e and garrison the towns ; and a dozen small ships with half a doz en small steamers for the coast service armed with two heavy juns each will be til the naval force required â€” this force could be bought for ijttie more than the cost of a frigate and maintained on the coast at less than half the expense and with more than ten times the efficiency of the present squadron in that quarter laguna â€” laguna which has been cap tured by com perry is a town of consid erable importance at the s e bottonrof the gulf in the province of tabasco and has a population of 3,000 it is situated on the west end of an island at the mouth of laguna de terminos and is remark ably healthy it is important to a hostile force as a depot and watering station and from this position communication between yucatan and mexico is easily cut off the harbors are safe and sheltered from all winds the bar at the mouth is passable with 15 feet water country bordering on the numerous streams emptying into lake terminos is covered with forests of logwood and is but sparsely inhabited ; it is much cut up by water courses la guna has a considerable trade with the united states the chief articles of export being logwood and hides it has an in land communication with tabasco navi gable by steamers and the harbor is at all times accessible oregon â€” by amendments to the bill es tablishes the oregon territory the mileage of the delegate to congress from oregon was fixed at a sum not exceeding 83000 an amendment was further moved and carried that he should be an american citizen and a further amendment that he should not serve for more than one con gress mr sawyer moved to limit thea mount of mileage to other members of con gress that it should in no case exceed si 500 - the chair declared this branch of the amendment not in order it is one of the evils of mal-government that its excesses call the people ofthe land from the pursuits which dignify and decorate the paths of peaceful life to the duties demanded by self preservation a twelvemonth since the conn try and its people were safe and happy : poli tics though always a duty was then neither ab sorbing nor imperative a year has under this administration dragged us already into wars and rumors of wars debts and the prospect of heavier debt the loss of credit the prospect of onerous taxation the derangement of trade lhe paralyzation of enterprise and the apprehension of darker calamities lowering from the future in ihis crisis every individual shares the peril there is nol a fireside a joy nor a hope in the community which is not party to the great struggle now pending ia thiscountry at such a time the press has duties which if it be fear less and faithful it will not dare not pretermit the present be it remembered is not a strug gle for ihe supremacy of any party or the ele vation of any aspirant the country is appeal ed to in relation to measures involving the pros perity of every american family the rescue of the land and its every-day domestic happi ness is now the business ofthe business man the subjects pending before congress and the events passing in mexico involve the people more deeply and dangerously than they have been involved since the birthday ofthe repub lic and though it might be more agreeable to us and to our readers to trifle and make mer ry even while the hand inscribes the fearful warning upon the wall we cannot believe that we would thus redeem the pledge we gave to our patrons the crisis litis imposed high and solemn duties upon the independent and patri otic press of our country we will not be found recreant to them â€” forth american locofoco " progress â€” the union says lhat the preamble to lhe resolution of our legisla ture stating that the mexican war was brought on by the executive is taking side against the country the president is the country ac cording to the union the mecklenburg jeftl'rsonian also speaks of it as a blow at cur own country and " throwing the blame of the war upon our gov ernment the president is government country and all with the progressives â€” fayelteville obscr vcr export of bread slnjfs slave than 4.000 000 bushels of grain were exported from new york city last year to foreign countries besides 1,193,428 bbls flour equal to 5,000,000 bush els more making a total of sine millions i'i'shels or its equivalent from a single port it is at the rate of 25.000 bushels in a day lhe year round sundays and all it is more than half a bushel to every white man woman and [ child in the nation â€” x y jour of com carry into execution the duties assigned to him must depend upon the forces belonging to ids command upon the force opposed to him and upon his personal qualifications â€” his genius to contrive his skill to combine and his energy lo execute whatever enterprise the crisis of af fairs may require it seems to me then that nothing can he founded upon slighter grounds than the opinion it it prevail al till that the of ficer who is now the senoir major general will lie in any respect better enable to discharge with honor to hirrself and advantage to th coun try the duties assigned him by tlie simple op eratioa of striking out major general from his commission and inserting lieutenant general but sir if the officer who is to fill this high place is not to be the present commanding gen eral ol the army but some junior officer eleva ted over his head i admit that this measure then ceases to be useless : ii becomes mis chievous it loses its character of harmless ness it is true but it a>-u;ii^s one of gross in jusiice it is then made the occasion for of fering tin open insult to a gallant officer whose life has been devoted to the service of his coun try whose blood has been slipd on her battle fields ; whose deeds of arms during whal has not inaptly been called the second war of in dependence cdicited eulogy from presidenl madison thanks from congress and enthusias tic admiration from the whole people â€” a man whose generous humanity high military quali ties and brilliant courage have earned lor him not only in this country but throughout europe an honorable reputation and who has contrib uted to elevate the american name and if instead of a junior officer from among that band of noble spirits who lead our tutus some one is to be taken from civil life then sir involved in the same insult wilh their chief we find all those gallant officers uio fought at palo alio at re saca at fort brown and at monterey â€” officers whose intrepidity is the theme of every tongue the pride of every heart â€” officers who have shown themselves deserving of ihe highest hon or and who have been some of them at least elevated by your brevets â€” officers of whom it is not too much to say that they possess till the high qualities which have enobled either officers of soldiers in anv service in the world sir such unjust returns for noble services must in fliel a pang of i;::nin on noble and gallant and patriotic hearts â€” a return which no necessity can justify and which in my judgment would stand as a foul blot upon the escutcheon of ihis great republic sir would this insull stop here .' no sir it would inflict a pang upon the nerve that vibrates in every noble heart : and my word lor it if such a law as this be passed â€” il a civilian be advanced over the heads of til those gallant spirits in our army to the chiel command not only would ihe brave officers and soldiers of our arniv but even the very sutlers and followers ofthe camp feel their eheeks tin gle wilh indignation and shame at the affront offered to that body and its head of which they were the humble relainers sir there is not an instance in the history of this country which x^.i rii.m-m m war wun uie men most pow erful nation of europe perhaps i might say without exaggeration ofthe world ' at one time if my memorj serves me we hid in the field not less il eight major cenenl â€” pe r . haps 1 am mistaken however : if so some se nator can set me right â€” yet i believe no ever thought of appointing some general-in chief on whom should he bestowed th hiÂ«h sounding imposing litle of lieutenant general what reason dors the president assign iu his message wherefore ihis office should be .-- tablished ! why it for one that we arccar rying on a war with mexico with mingled troops regulars and voltintei â– -. was nol tint the case in the war i 1812 for another that the force which we now employ is large was it not large in 1812 was england a le.-s formidable foe than weak and crippled mex ico ? how stands t case between us ' whv sir en shore on il oil our war with eng land was aim entirely a defensive war she from bergreal maritime power was enabled to ih r.-w ],â– â– !â– iroi ;â€¢- bit i our country and we occupied in repelling them which we did suc cessfully thanks to the gallant spirit ol t ficers and men composing our army bui bow is it now ! we are aim -â€¢ in th â€¢ heart of mexico : ihe foot of no forei m so iier po our soil ; our agricultural labors are not di turbed we are suffering no evils inflicted up on us by a foreign foe within lhe limits of our land how does il i licit what was not thought to i ry in 1812 against a great power should he considered now against lhe neighboring i mex ico though ie i exactly the <â€¢â– ntemptible enemy which she was once supp .-. 1 to i because we have lhe best a r thinking now lhat lhe idea of a six wee --.â€¢.! away from ihe minds even of i who are most apl to ind imagina tion ; for on yesterday we i d it annou that we are now though warring against a despicable fue only at lhe beginning ol this war but still although i ! ':-; trt.r that m'-xi co is nol i 1 .-' 1 conten â€¢ toe which she be . although she is show ing '!.:.! a nation rous i p r the purpose of pro tecting themselves from an invading enemy may l.e stion if united â€” vet s'.il everj must know ber powei i not to be compared with ours and that as an enemy sic i not worthy to be compared with the great nation to which we w â– -. i in l812 bit iti reference to the reasons which in duced ibe senator from kentucky and myself as members of the military committee of the senate lo he opposed to lie bill the same ob jections which i then entertained ? ti!l remain in full force i listened attentively yesterday to what fell from the honorable senator from new york for lie purpose of seeing whether in reality ihere was some jusl reason for lha passage of ibis measure v teafod from my own observation might be brought g rwaru i and explained before me by ibe ingenuity of , tlu honorable senator ; hot sir after u.o<t al brcner & james > v.vin^o t r â€¢ . \ keep a check upos all your l<l tors proprietors j is safe { new series r-jleks do this and liberty < huj gen'l harrison ( number 40 op volume iii salisbury j c fribay7februaryvi847

" 1 v.*m*--t ix ' :] -^ per aii " uml ." a ; lv 7 j^rtisementsinaertej at jfl p*r square for theto .,". 25 cents for each sabseqaent insertion court or ir ged 25 percent higher an act to improve the navigation of the yadkin river re it enacted by lhe general assembly f the state of north carolina and it is jljbv enacted by the authority of the ' me that it shall and may be lawful open books of subscription at lexing ton under the direction of j 1 mabry jilliam harris and joseph if thomp on or any two of them ; at salisbury the direction of john j shaver ..:, s mccay.and joseph f cham l-rs or any two of ihem : at moeksville er the direction of braxton bailey mcelroy.and alexander lanes or 1 two of them at i luntsville under e direction of richard c puryear nich a |_ williams and francis clingman ny two of them ; at rockford under .. direction of francis k armstrong mark york and james r dodge or any wo-oftbem at wilkesborougli under ,. c direction of sidney stokes anderson ;, nnd james gwynn or any two i for receiving subscriptions for jmnroring lue navigation of the yadkin giver to an amount not less than thirty | sand dollars nor more than three hundred thousand which subscriptions , made personally or by power of attorney in shares of fifty dollars each that tli s:i - '' '' ; "''^ snh " de opened on ibe first day ot february next and be kept open till the first day of may next e ; and on the second monday of e said month of may there shall be a lieneral meeting of the subscribers at lexington aforesaid and the managers lid or any three of them shall give notice ofsnch meeting in one or more pu blished on the town of salisbury iih at least before the day ap for that purpose and such meet an person or persons on oenaii ot the company to open and improve the nav igation of yadkin river from the town of wilkesborougli to the south carolina line by canals locks or sluices from place to place and from time to time up on such terms as they shall think fit and out ofthe said capital or other monies of the company pay for making and repair ing all works necessary for the said navi gation and also for building boats and employing hands for the purpose of nav igating said river and also to appoint a treasurer clerk and all such other offi cers managers and servants as they shall think requisite and also to agree for their wages settle and pay their accounts and at their pleasure to remove all or any of them and appoint others in their place and also to establish rules of proceding and generally to transact all the business of the company in the intervals between the general meetings of the same and any general meeting of the proprietors may aliow the said president and direc tors such.sum of money as the said gen eral meeting may think a reasonable com pensation for their trouble 5 and be il further enacted that the stock shall be paid in such proportions and at such times as may be determined by any general meeting of the stockhold ers and to such officer of the company as may be appointed to receive the same one month's previous notice ofthe amount state of north carou.va office of secretary of slate i william hill secretary of state in and for the state of north carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an act of the general assembly of 1s4g â€” 7 drawn off from the original which is on file in this office given nuclei my hand this 14th day of january 1817 wm hill secretary of state commodore perry's plax the n y evening post publishes a letter from its washington correspondent giving a plan for the future prosecution of the war recommended hy commodore per ry which is said to have been spoken of with very general approbation in wash ington we give the following extract from the orresdondenis letter : a few words will suffice to make it plain abandon all the expensive san guinary and doubtful projects of further invasion so far as regards the interior of mexico let us content ourselves with the occupation of the provinces already conquered or so much of them as we may intend to keep as an indemnification for the war on the other hand let us take immediate possession of ail her ports both on the gull and on the pacific and occu another english view of a merica from the liverpool journal dec 5 the war in america grows suspicion santa anna was publicly ushered into mexico by the united states ; and yet this dictator by their permission has done nothing to terminate hostilities which nei ther party seems disposed to prosecute with becoming energy general taylor lan guishes in the field with an insufficient force and santa anna without either an army or money talks big but does noth ing it is not unreasonable to suspect a joggle here ; but we can better excuse it since it or something else has reduced the horrors of war to a minimum as we said last week the united states must compel the mexicans to adopt the means of securing peace this must be the end ofthe war sooner or later in the meantime a political change has come over the union the moneyed in terest has again asserted its influence and democracy which always implies lhe re verse of wealth has sustained a de-feat in the recent elections mr webster is spo ken of as the next president and mr polk will have to sustain the mortification of governing through an adverse parliament we are not disposed to apprehend any thing worse from all this than a transfer ence of power from one party to another the tariff is not likely to be disturbed t went minth congr ess debate in the senate ijkute x a s t g : : n 1 k a i . 7'lie bill to authorize the appointment of a lieutenant general to command the military forces ot the united slates during the war with mexico was taken up f or consideration as in committee of the whole mr badger then rose am said that the best return he believed he could make to lhe senate lor its kindness in adjourning yesterday in order to give him an opportunity to say what he had to say to-day would he to proceed at ce.ee to the statement of those reasons which seemed to him to present an insuperable ob tion to the granting of that which the president of the united states asked of them and which the bill upon lhe table proposed to grant the proposal said mr u is to appoinl a commanding general who when commissioned as lieutenant general shall command all the armies of the united states if this bill mr president shall pass into a law the proposed high office lo be created by it must be filled either by the presenl general commanding the army or bv some junior officer of the army or by some citizen to be taken from the walks of private like in the first case sir i think it musl he manifest on a very little reflection that the measure must prove entirely useless the major general now commanding the army com mands all the force about him ; his command extends over the whole district or department 4 can ervc as a nn â€¢.,',. t . ii . â– , ' " 1 5 ini'ie i n,,t an n s , h v j " v . 8,,tha,,ii < < true mr , hat in 1793 when lhe ,â€ž mi . v pns . se.s,ngfor inferior powers and inferior psci ties for military defence was threatened with an inevitable war with the prou *,,â€ž st and most powerful nation r.f tl ,| ii t y it i true that on that occasion the office of lieaten ant general was established and washington was called under that designation tj fal e command of all the armies ofthe country but str.it was washington who o lhat command it wasfurvvash lllna t â„¢ ? aa 1 washington was the n re meiit l which he loved enjoying the ease and solace of domestic life which he had earned for himself bv 1 riu â€ž s ,,â€ž-,. washington was called to that command b people by the army itself called to lake |] e charge and direi ti n of those great military of beers and it he returned ui active life if he left the spot in which he h to pas without interruption the few remaining j a i sof hu it was due to him it was c i e *'' â– ;*'â€¢' iÂ«ion of eminence ami glory win 1 he had occupied m this couniry yes sir it was due tp him who as he had been first in war was to h.s character lis pre-eminence tin out the whole breadth Â« i this land ir was to the proud positi m which ho occuj ied in the civilized world ; yes it was due to him when at the call of his country le surrendered easa and comfort to appear once nine upon th of arm that h ; should do it wilh a ti ponding in - ee with his va perior merits sir the state of things is now changed we have no washington we carin.it it w throughout lhe whole country find in retire ment a man on whose head a nation's bless mgs have with entire unanimity been shower ed as on him we cannot look abroad and find some one man whose name is gratefully cher ished as having heen once the saviour of his country and to whom all lo.-k again lo dis cbarge this benevolent office of patriotism a second time for ihem we have eminent and good men we have them in public and in pri vate life .- we have them in the military and in the civil service of the country ; we have them belonging to all parties into which the people ..,. i m...i . 1 .: 1 ... . ii ., ' â€¢ , shall be continued from day to day ... business is finished and the man resaid shall then and there lay meeting the books kept by containing a statement of said sub ins and if the stun of three hundred bousand dollars aforesaid shall not have i subscribed then the meeting afore r i majority thereof if they think nay direct any three of the man pn aforesaid to continue to receive â€¢ pt ions of slock at such times and s as may be designated by said naeet iz,cn:il lhe said sum of three hundred mand dollars shall have been subscrib soch other sum over and above iheusand dollars as said meeting ecify : provided the same does : mceed three hundred thousand dol i\;uk1 the president and directors to t cons'ituted as hereinafter provided immediately after the said first meet : i afterwards from time to time as iotas the same shall by new subscrip s become necessary make a list of â€¢ bscribers with the sums subscribed . person and return the sttme un their hands or under the hands of any ol them to the office of the secreta ihe state of north carolina there o be received i ami be it farther enacted that in sesix hundred shares or more of said ipital stock shall be subscribed as a fore id the subscribers their heirs and as and time ot making the payments being given in some one newspaper published in the town of salisbury and if any of the subscribers their heirs or assigns shall fail to pay their proportions requir ed within one month after the same is so advertised the president and directors or a majority of them may sell at auction ! and convey to the purchaser the shares of ! the subscribers so failing giving at least i one month's notice of the sale in some newspaper in the town aforesaid and after retaining the sum due together with the interest thereon and charges of sale out of the money produced thereby they shall refund and pay the surplus if any to the former owners and if such sale shall not produce the full sum ordered and directed to be advanced as aforesaid with interest and incidental charges the said president and directors or a majority of them may in the name of the company sue for and recover the balance by mo tion in any court of competent jnrisdic â– tion on ten days previous notice ; and the said purchaser or purchasers shall be sub ject to the same rules and regulations and entitled to the same profits and privileges as if the sale or conveyance had been made by the original proprietor (!. antl be it further enacted that said canals locks and every work and thing appertaining to the said navigation with all the profits arising from the same or any part thereof shall be and they are py them as conquered territory till she shall come to just and honorable terms of peace open them all to a free commerce first placing in them collectors of our own and establishing a suitable tariff a spe cific duties by means of which we shall levy from the mexican nation itself a revenue fully adequate to cover all the expenses naval and military of such oc cupation in regard to yucatan which is constantly blowing hot and cold between mexico and ourselves compel that prov ince at once lo its election between the two if it shall abide by the fate of the former include its ports likewise in this system and in either ease extend a cor don of military accupations across the isth mus which conncts it with mexico so as to cut off the mexicans from the supplies chiefly ofthe indispensable article of salt which they now derive from the cunning and double yucatecos when we have our enemy thus shut in on all sides let us hold him so like a f'roward child shut up n a closet or held firmly and patiently by the arms till he comes to his senses legs pardon and promises to be good the beauty of this plan is that mexico herself will have to pay its whole expense while at the same lime our own people and commerce will be greatly benefited hy it it will be idle for her to prohibit the further diffusion throughout the coun try of the goods thus introduced into her ports they will circulate as certainly for the american whigs like the english tories may improve upon the policy of their opponents and astonish alike friends and enemies by the extent ot their love for free trade this is the more likely from their seeing now the advantage of sir robert peel's measures to them and us the most distant parts ofthe union reveal unexpected stocks of bread stuffs and the farmers pour down on the ports unheard of quantities for export to great britian and ireland freedom of trade is here doubly blessed and the glad popula tion of europe will rejoice that the new world teems with plenty to feed the old the late harvest in america compensates for every deficiency here and creates an active trade in shipping and no doubt in manufactures for the demand being un expected may be regarded as a kind of sudden enrichment the farmers on the mississippi will be enabled to indulge the taste of their wives sons and daughters in the gratifying productions of british in dustry while the corn crop howerer is large the cotton crop is less promising a pos itive deficiency is expected and that de ficincy will be the greater in consequence ofthe increased consumption in our mills as yet however there is a want of cer tainty and as cheap cotton is a blessing we find relief in the remaining hope that the crop may turn out better than is ex pected uio rresiaent oj the tinted slates has assigned or may assign to him and a lieuten ft general though his title may be loftier can do no more the president of the i . states may assign to lhe present commanding major general of the army the whole eniire and ab solute control under him of all the military op rations of the war and he may assign though he is not bound to assign to a lieutenant gene ral to this officer with the title of lieutenant general the same large and extensive authori ty the president of the united states may confine lhe present senior major general of lhe army to a particular district to a tianow com mand or to a small body of troops ; so can he confine the same officer elevated to the grade of lieutenant general : for by the express pro vision of lhe constitution by lhe inevitable ne cessity of the case by whatever title he mas be called major general or lieutenant general ho is at last under the absolute control or direc lion of ihe president himself who is the sole constitutional commander-in-chief i5v chang ing therefore the designation of major general to lieutenant general you not enlarge bis authority for the chief command of theÂ°whole army is incident to no general whatever his grade may be unless when that army is collec ted together and acting as one body ; and when so collected and acting together the chief com mand is incident to ihe senior officer whether called lieutenant or major general noi is lhc capacity of the officer to discharge with effect to carry into successful results the duties as signed to him in the smallest degree increased by a change of title or an elevation to a iiÂ»hcr grade the authority must come from the pre sideut of the l'nited stales the capacity to in uiviueu ; inn sir among in.-m all there is not one whose name can without profanation be spoken in ci mparison with the nan washington sir ihe creation of that office in 1798 \\,.~ a personal tribute of grateful admira tion and respect on the part of this country to washington it was founded on motives per sonal to him no man supposed at that day as some seem to supp se al this that washing ton at the head of the armi - i his country with the title of major general could not have been as efficienf ;.- if he bore a hundred titles â€” as il l,e wore all ihe lilies which european device could heap upon him ti idea lhat washington could derive any advantage any mental power of concentration any genius any greater skill in the management of lhe affairs ol his country : or thai it would add anything jo the indomitable sp:ril l.v wine he was ena bled in success or i adversity to 1 always tlie sam : hut he could derive in any degree all 01 any of these attributes from the circum slance ot bearing a higher title entered not i am persuaded into t imagination of any ho man being it was known that washington with lhe title of major general could have dis charge all h dutii s lhal were placed in his hands ay with an inferior title ; i ccausc lhe power io discharge i 1 em depended on his per sonal qualities tied lhe force placed at hi i com mand the lit in that case was just : il was deserved by him bit no oilier man am i wrong in saying that this appointmenl sprun from motives personal lo washington ' h look at lhe subsequent transactions of this go eminent nearly half a century has passed a way since ties office -u;ii^s one of gross in jusiice it is then made the occasion for of fering tin open insult to a gallant officer whose life has been devoted to the service of his coun try whose blood has been slipd on her battle fields ; whose deeds of arms during whal has not inaptly been called the second war of in dependence cdicited eulogy from presidenl madison thanks from congress and enthusias tic admiration from the whole people â€” a man whose generous humanity high military quali ties and brilliant courage have earned lor him not only in this country but throughout europe an honorable reputation and who has contrib uted to elevate the american name and if instead of a junior officer from among that band of noble spirits who lead our tutus some one is to be taken from civil life then sir involved in the same insult wilh their chief we find all those gallant officers uio fought at palo alio at re saca at fort brown and at monterey â€” officers whose intrepidity is the theme of every tongue the pride of every heart â€” officers who have shown themselves deserving of ihe highest hon or and who have been some of them at least elevated by your brevets â€” officers of whom it is not too much to say that they possess till the high qualities which have enobled either officers of soldiers in anv service in the world sir such unjust returns for noble services must in fliel a pang of i;::nin on noble and gallant and patriotic hearts â€” a return which no necessity can justify and which in my judgment would stand as a foul blot upon the escutcheon of ihis great republic sir would this insull stop here .' no sir it would inflict a pang upon the nerve that vibrates in every noble heart : and my word lor it if such a law as this be passed â€” il a civilian be advanced over the heads of til those gallant spirits in our army to the chiel command not only would ihe brave officers and soldiers of our arniv but even the very sutlers and followers ofthe camp feel their eheeks tin gle wilh indignation and shame at the affront offered to that body and its head of which they were the humble relainers sir there is not an instance in the history of this country which x^.i rii.m-m m war wun uie men most pow erful nation of europe perhaps i might say without exaggeration ofthe world ' at one time if my memorj serves me we hid in the field not less il eight major cenenl â€” pe r . haps 1 am mistaken however : if so some se nator can set me right â€” yet i believe no ever thought of appointing some general-in chief on whom should he bestowed th hiÂ«h sounding imposing litle of lieutenant general what reason dors the president assign iu his message wherefore ihis office should be .-- tablished ! why it for one that we arccar rying on a war with mexico with mingled troops regulars and voltintei â– -. was nol tint the case in the war i 1812 for another that the force which we now employ is large was it not large in 1812 was england a le.-s formidable foe than weak and crippled mex ico ? how stands t case between us ' whv sir en shore on il oil our war with eng land was aim entirely a defensive war she from bergreal maritime power was enabled to ih r.-w ],â– â– !â– iroi ;â€¢- bit i our country and we occupied in repelling them which we did suc cessfully thanks to the gallant spirit ol t ficers and men composing our army bui bow is it now ! we are aim -â€¢ in th â€¢ heart of mexico : ihe foot of no forei m so iier po our soil ; our agricultural labors are not di turbed we are suffering no evils inflicted up on us by a foreign foe within lhe limits of our land how does il i licit what was not thought to i ry in 1812 against a great power should he considered now against lhe neighboring i mex ico though ie i exactly the v.vin^o t r â€¢ . \ keep a check upos all your l